Got a Smoke Hollow #6 for Christmas. Just seasoned it this morning. I need to buy a cover (so I don't have to keep carrying it to my workshop when it's gonna rain) and a digital thermometer. But the seasoning went well. :)

37 degrees here today. I live about 8 miles east of Niagara Falls, NY. About the time I was done with seasoning, it started to rain. So I carried the smoker into my workshop after emptying the wood box and making sure the whole thing was cool to the touch. Don't need to even THINK about a fire in my workshop.

I know the cover is a good thing, but do I really have to worry about the smoker getting rained on occasionally?

Recently retired from a university IT job, I have time. Good thing because now that the workshop is finished I have to get started on building all of the kitchen cabinets for a gut remodel of the kitchen. My wife likes to make sure I'm not getting bored. :) So while I'm making sawdust, I can run that smoker.

OH! A question...

The smoker will hold a fair amount of meat. Can I smoke stuff and then FREEZE it? Or is that sacreligious or something? Or do you generally smoke 2 chickens, some ribs, a pork butt and a brisket and then just eat it all? :) If that's the case, I need a SMALLER smoker hehehhe.

Welcome,, I tend to smoke a lot of one thing at a time. Just seems to be easier watching temps, timing, preparing etc. Then you can freeze a couple of months worth of pork butt, a couple of months worth of chuckie etc.

Good luck with that workshop, remember fine dust is flammable and will blow up so keep the hot smoker outside!

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